Family Therapy, a black comedy by acclaimed auteur Sonja Prosenc, has been picked to be Slovenia's official entry for consideration in the best international feature category at the 2025 Oscars.

Produced by Monoo, the feature was selected by the Slovenian Federation of Filmmakers' Guilds.

It talks about the topical issue of the untouchable elite and its hedonistic ways, the jury said in explaining its choice on 11 September.

"The film succeeds in intertwining the complex dynamic of relations between the inner and outer worlds, the spiritual and the physical.

"Using an innovative combination of modes of expression, high production level and the right amount of comedy and tragedy, the cast and crew managed to break through the illusory glass that until then protected us from the intrusion of brutal reality," the jury said.

Family Therapy had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in June before opening the competition section the Sarajevo Film Festival in August.

A co-production of Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Norway and Serbia, the drama portrays the comic dysfunctionality of relationships in a seemingly perfect family.

The arrival of a young stranger exposes the cracks in the family's carefully guarded facade; the mother's overprotective attitude to her daughter, the father's escape route into a dream of a family trip to outer space, and the truth hidden beneath the daughter's wig.

In Sarajevo, the film won the Arthouse Cinema Award by the CICAE jury, which represents an association of 3,000 arthouse cinemas worldwide.

The director Prosenc also received the Živko Nikolić Award for Special Contribution to Cinematic Expression at the Herceg Novi - Montenegro Film Festival.

The film is currently in cinemas in Slovenia. It stars Katarina Stegnar, Marko Mandić, Mila Bezjak and Canadian up-and-coming actor Aliocha Schneider in the lead roles.